Hello everyone, this thread is to showcase the winners of the monthly Cameralabs Assignment contest.

Congratulations to all our winners!

Month: May 2014Theme: 'Dream'Winners: Vissie

Dream Of Fire

NikonD300s14-24 Nikkor 2.8F11

Month: April 2014Theme: 'Flight'Winners: mikeroch

OK, I'll come clean.... this was taken last autumn just before the terns migrated south, so it misses the 6 month deadline by a month, I've put it into keep the numbers up in poor old OA. By all means disregard it from the voting. It was a grey day, with a grey sky and the birds are mostly grey so, although it appears to be a monochrome shot, it is actually full colour. My luck being what it is, they all chose to turn their backs on me as they hovered over a school of small fish hoping to grab a meal.

TEC 140 with an FLI ML16803 camera and Astrodon filters (3nm for the narrowband work)8 x 1500 secs Ha, 18 x 1500 secs for each of OIII, NII and SII, 8 x 200 secs for each of R, G and B.Image processed in PI and PS.

There's a little more about the image over in this thread. This is by far the most exposure time I've devoted to an astro-photograph to date. So long, in fact, that I'm almost loath to try a repeat on something else given the unreliability of the British weather.

Bob.

Month: September 2013Theme: 'Shadow'Winner: mikeroch

THE SHADOW OF DEATH

Puffins nest on a headland near us, they choose rocky sea-stacks so that they are safe from predators like Foxes, Pine Martens and Weasels... BUT, they cannot protect themselves easily from the attentions of Great Black Backed Gulls which cruise the colony looking for chicks and weaklings. I was trying to photograph the puffins and only discovered that I'd got this shot of one running for cover once I got the pictures into the computer.

A local church in the area shot on a cold, windy day just recently in Sydney. Maxed out the settings so that I could drag exposure out as long as I could to get as much movement in the cloud as possible.

Month: May 2013Theme: 'The Great Outdoors'Winner: mikeroch

Yes, it really was this colour... no adjustments applied. I live in a remote area in the far NW of Scotland. It has disadvantages (city / shopping/ hospitals 100 miles 160km away) but early morning sights such as this compensate enormously!

Waited for almost the whole of January to post this photo from Jan 1st. New Year's Day always involves a visit to the grandparents, and this time I brought my Leica to take some snaps of them. The picture below shows my grandmother, who suffers from dementia. I processed a black and white version too, which I prefer for most of my work, but the color was too important in this picture.

I took my new alien friend out to Moreton Island this past weekend, so he can experience life here on Earth in a relaxing, and beautiful, way. He saw a ton of wildlife, including starfish, dolphins, kookaburras, rose-breasted cockatoos (Galah), and tons of fish. He was in awe of how different each and every animal was. I thought about posting a wildlife pic here for this assignment. However, on the last night, my friend was absolutely taken aback by the sunset. Being that the sky in his planet is always the same color, black, he was amazed by the colors and the clouds. Hopefully you all feel the same

Camera Model: Canon 600DLens and focal length: Canon 18-55mm kit lens, at 29mmAperture: 9Shutter Speed: 1/4000Sensitivity: 1250Post processing: Shot in RAW, the only PP was to increase the saturation a tad, and crop a tiny piece off the bottom where I caught someone's head down on the beach

There are many things in an oz life style we feel good about, where I live it's sunny and warm most days even in winter with the green and gold of our city with an outdoor life style. The green of the national parks and rain forests behind the golden beaches. You can sit on a beach with hundreds like Surfers Paradise or sit on a beach with few people on it like Diamond Cove at the end of an expansive beach.

I’ve decided to go for my father’s Tissot. (My Orient doesn’t catch up ). Not exactly what I wanted at the beginning of the shoot, but I think the result is OK. Nikon D5000 18-55 Kit lens at 26 mm (eq. to 39 mm on full frame)f4.21/13 250 ISO

I used an off camera flash, trigged by a self made cable and taped to my Canon 420EZ flash. The flash fired at a big plastic board for diffusion. Converted to B/W, contrast, fill light, brightness, and probably something else… and added vignette and text.Hope you like it.

The Flaming Star Nebula is actually just the bit at three o'clock (IC 405 on the annotated thumbnail) and a quick inspection shows how it got its name. To give an idea of how much sky is visible one could fit roughly 25 full moons across the width of the image.

Not your typical HDR look but the image actually does cover an enormous dynamic range.8 x 1000 seconds exposures of Hα to capture the nebulosity5 x 200 seconds through each of Red, Green and Blue filters to capture the stars3 x 1000 seconds through the Blue filter to see if there was any reflection nebulosityCamera: FLI ML16803 cooled to -25°C.Captured on the night of December 23rd/24th.

Was handheld. This was a really long escalator in the DC metro that I wanted to capture. Not happy with the Flikr photo quality, so I reuploaded with Photobucket.

Month: October 2011Theme: 'Equipment'Winner: darthkindy

this guy was at a local craft show selling his CD and he was drumming up some business (so to speak)very simplea crop and black and white conversionsorry about the banding it looks better it is an artifact of the compressionfor the webDSC_6824a by darthkindy, on Flickr

Month: September 2011Theme: 'Construction'Winner: ianganderton

Al Hamra Sunset

This is the scene before me as I drive home each evening. Cranes on horizon line are, for me, one of the defining images of this part of the world.

Albino Tigar Oscar Cichlid, this is one of my amazonian fish. He has quite the personality, his name is zeus, pushing about 9 inches right now (grow to 12-14"). It took him a little bit to get used to the flashes but he started to like them soon enough. Hope you like it.

Lighting is done with an Alienbees B800 upper-right with silver-bounce umbrella, and an Alienbees B800 with 30degree grid and lavender gel firing at the model's back. There is a 40" silver disc reflector below the model to reflect back under her face. Triggered with cybersyncs by cyber commander.

I first shined a flashlight on my subject (Paige, my roommate), then in the dark, shined a red and blue light toward the camera to make the effects. Since a light wasn't directed at me, I didn't show up in the picture. I want to try this in a totally dark room... the window and street lamps were a bit of a bleed.

A craftsman at work gearing up fo a big festivity in Bengal - India.The whole situation looks unnatural... the man almost getting bitten by the clay lion, the demon trying to smack on his head from behind and he unperturbedly working on the Elephant God - Ganesha.

A fun take on a morning ritual I'm sure a lot of us go through every day. I wanted to go humourous with this assignment because I've been shooting a lot of "serious" stuff lately. Definitely needed to lighten my mood a bit

Taken with the siggy lens f/5 1/20 ISO400 51mm prog. mode.As taken from camera, but i cropped 1 inch off bottom of photo.

At the Chinese New Year celebrations in Londons Chinatown yesterday, the dragon dance parade symbolising success and good luck was calling at every establishment.Whilst watching I noticed the family within the restaurant lift their child to watch the celebrations, they made a lovely sight and feel i caught a special moment. Although the lanterns and crowd can be seen reflected in the window, sadly the dragon could not. I just love the happiness which seems to radiate from this family. Sue

This is a HDR from a single raw file. You can see the lake of constance, and the alps. Taken with a Canon 100mm 2.8 IS L out of a window of my university.

Month: November 2009Theme: 'History'Winner: Naniani

Hi everyone, Big Ben in London is one of the famous historic sights at Westminster, although the name Big Ben refers to the bell inside the clocktower. After heavy rainfall i took this reflection in a large and deep puddle on the other side of the road. Sue.Siggy lens. f/5.6 1/200 ISO 400 63mmAperture priority. Slightly cropped and contrast/brightness adjusted.

Month: October 2009Theme: 'series'Winner: SolarSanction

Empty, colorless, still, and so lifeless...It's only until someone comes by when they start to scream out their existence in the silent room, for they are excited--anxious to be chosen, waiting endlessly...The moment that one is chosen, it becomes enriched in life, and color is drawn into its world, as well as into the eyes of its beholder.

My first post ever. Wanted to capture spring's long shadows but the shot turned out to be good in this assignment too. The photo was taken while I biked, so had to mount the camera on my cycle rack with a gorilla pod - know Gordon Laing loves it too.

That's the one I'll post for the April assignment. A picture explaining the technique behind the capture is posted in "April 2008 Comments and Questions".

JC

Month: March 2008Theme: 'Time'Winner: Chaplainblake

It was recommended to me that I put this photo here, though I must admit that I feel inadequate doing so. I have no real title for this shot, as I was not really composing it, per se--I just though it looked neat. The organic (participants in time) versus the mechanical (the keeper of time) struck me though, which was the reason for the shot. Later, I also noted the contrast of geometry: the lines, crossing beams, and center window, set against the foreground of the individual nature of the human form...maybe what drew me to that frame.

I took this photo with a canon S80, black and white, zoomed out to 28mm, ISO 100, aperture 4.0, and shutter speed 1/200. No post-processing (I do not know how yet!) (I am new to photography, so please forgive me if I misuse the nomenclature.)

Regards, Blake

Month: February 2008Theme: 'Your Living Place - your town'Winner: zrmi

taken from Mt Eden, Auckland..I love the juxtaposition between the cow and the city background..those two portrays two different aspect that creates the purity of New Zealand.

My intention was mostly to see what this lens could do. I was expecting to show this effect of turmoil on the surface, after a droplet falls. The little one that seems to be ejected adds a little tension to the whole.

What talent. You know, we have sifted thru tons of images, voting on this series, and it is really just like something to put up on your mantle, over the fireplace, being awarded the "winner", by your peers. Congrats to all of the winners, and even to us looooooosers..something to aspire to, belonging to THIS thread.